[NTLUG:Discuss] BitTorrent on Libranet

[Robert Citek]

On Wednesday, March 31, 2004, at 11:08  AM, Burton M. Strauss III wrote:
> All in all, if you are on a slow network, BT could be much less 
> efficient
> than FTP/HTTP downloads.

Any guess as to what the "efficiency hit" would be?  That is, how much 
slower would BT be vs FTP or HTTP assuming only a single user and all 
other things being equal?  Are we talking 5-10%, 10%-100%, or factors 
of 2 or 10 or more?

As soon as I get my BT server going, I'd like to do that test.

Regards,
- Robert